cryptic clue
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cryptic clue
13 across in Guardian Cryptic crossword no. 25,720 set by Chifonie. "Sportsman makes one retire"
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Re: cryptic clue
3 words
steamier or keen?
steamier or keen?
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Re: cryptic clue
not 'ere ire ?
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Useless, the lot of you
I was just impressed they not only included the word in the first place, but even associated it with sport..

I was just impressed they not only included the word in the first place, but even associated it with sport..
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But excludes all W orienteers... (And I don't usually attempt cryptic crosswords, let alone solve any clues!)
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Come on - don't leave us hanging like this..what was the answer?
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I enter roe ?
Oh, I just can't get this. Help, please.
Oh, I just can't get this. Help, please.
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Re: cryptic clue
Its about the end of the London Olympics
Rio Entree
Rio Entree
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Re: cryptic clue
Is "makes one retire" meant to be telling us something about the demographic profile ?
curro ergo sum
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I think it's coined a new phrase for the sinister encroachment of computer games which is producing a whole generation of couch potato kids who'd rather go on-line than do sport for their kicks . From hence forth this phenomenon will be known as:
Tron....eerie!
Tron....eerie!
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Mrs H - god
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Or is it a message to awk from the London city race?
Oi! re-enter
Oi! re-enter
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It's what a golf-playing Irish orienteer might use for a fairway shot: a TREEE IRON
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I thought Mrs H might have picked up the sexist element of the question 

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Oh I'm all for sexism - how else are we meant to keep men in their place 

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